US Patent Issued to EcoPhage on April 7 for "Bacteriophages for the control of bacterial speck disease" (Israeli, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,850, issued on April 7, was assigned to EcoPhage Ltd. (Nes Ziona, Israel).

"Bacteriophages for the control of bacterial speck disease" was invented by Orly Savion (Ness Ziona, Israel), Olga Nissan (Rehovot, Israel), Sammy Frenk (Kfar Saba, Israel), Rudy Maor (Hethersett, Great Britain) and Liat Avrahami-Moyal (Gan Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Agricultural compositions are disclosed which comprise at least one isolated bacteriophage capable of infecting the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, the at least one bacteriophage having a genomic nucleic acid sequence at least 85% identical to one of the nucleic a...